‘Office’ Star John Krasinski Just Wants More People To Know About David Foster Wallace

How to make every profile of you begin with the words ‘thinking woman’s sex symbol’ in one easy step: As an undergraduate at Brown, get so obsessed with David Foster Wallace’s ‘Brief Interviews With Hideous Men’ that later, the first time you do anything that makes you any money, you go out and buy the film rights to the book. That’s what John Krasinski says he did with his ‘Office’ pilot paycheck, and the film, which he directed, is now in postproduction. Krasinski really, really likes David Foster Wallace: “It’s basically now turning into a cinematic experience where you go behind the scenes of what it’s like to be a guy in David’s world, which is not necessarily the real world. I’ll leave that up to you. I won’t say that he’s the end-all, be-all on guys. But maybe he is.” Sigh. Sometimes it can be very appealing when someone likes the same kind of books you like.